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Sonchita Bagchi1, Emelie Perland1,2, Kimia Hosseini1

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Unit of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

The International Journal of Neuroscience
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PubMed

Keywords:
Major Facilitator Superfamily Domain containing 6 (MFSD6)Transporterenergy metabolismgeneticshuman Solute Carrier (SLC) transporter familymRNAmolecular imaging

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